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(No Model.)

W. A. NEIDHARDT. TOWEL BRACKET.

No. 477,144. Patented June 14, 1892.

A TTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM A. NEIDIIARDT, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

TOWEL-BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 477,144, dated June 14,1892.

Application filed January 26, 1892. Serial No. 419,287. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. NEIDHARDT, of New York city, in thecounty and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved'lowel-Bracket, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to improvements in towel-brackets such as areadapted for holding roller-towels. Towels of this class are usuallyfound in public places, such as barrooms, hotels, and toilet-rooms, andas the towel-fixtures are necessarily exposed to the public they arefrequently stolen.

The object of my invention is to produce a towel-bracket which will holdthe towel in a convenient position for use and which may be also lookedin place, so that it cannot be removed without unlocking it.

To this end my invention consists in a towelbracket, the construction ofwhich will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of the bracket embodying my invention,and Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same on the line 2 2 ofFig. 1.

The bracket is provided with a wall-plate 10, which is secured to a wallby screws 11, and these screws are arranged so as to come directlybehind the roller 12, so that a screwdriver cannot be applied to themwithout first removing the roller, and as the roller is looked, ashereinafter described, the wall-plate can not be taken down except bythe proper person to do so. The roller 12 has the usual end trunnions13, which are supported and turn in the supplemental brackets 14: and14, which are secured to the wall-plate near its ends. The bracket 14has an outer shell 15, which is widened at the top to give it the usualbracket shape and which has at the back a flange 17, adapted to restagainst the wallplate and to receive the fastening-screws 18, whichproject through the flange and wallplate, as shown in Fig. '2. Severalof the screws 18, or, if necessary, all of them, are provided at theirinner ends with washers or burrs 19, to which they are riveted orheaded, and consequently the supplemental brackets cannot be removedfrom the wall-plate. The supplemental bracket 14 is provided at the topand near the center with vertical slots 20, which extend to the edgethereof and which enable the roller 12 to be removed. The lower portionof the bracket 14 is perforated, as shown at 21, which perforationregisters with the other member of the bracket, as described below. Thebracket 1 1 has a removable middle portion 22,wl1ich extends downwardinto the shell and which is of the same general shape as the shell. Thisremovable member 22 terminates at its upper edge in a cap 23, adapted torest upon and close the top of the shell 15, and a similar cap isproduced on the bracket 14: to make the brackets look alike. The memberor tongue 22 is perforated near the top, as shown at 24 in Fig. 2, so asto receive the roller-trunnion,and it is also perforated near thebottom, as shown at 25, which perforation registers with the perforation21 in the shell 15. tions 21 and 25 is to enable the hasp 26 of'thepadlock 27 to be inserted in the perforations, and the two members ofthe bracket will thus be securely locked together. To remove the roller,the padlock 27 is unlocked and the hasp 26 is removed from the twomembers of the bracket, after which the inner member 22 is removed, thusraising one end of the roller, which may be easily done, owing to thearrangement of the slots 20, and when one end of the roller is raisedthe other may be slipped from its supportingbracket.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the bracket is inevery way as convenient as the common roller-bracket, and it will bealso evident that the bracket cannot be removed from the wall to whichit is attached without first unlocking it, and as the key to the lockwill be carried by some responsible person the bracket cannot be stolen.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. A towel-bracket having parallel outwardprojectingarms placed vertically edgewise, one arm having a transverse aperturefor one roller-trunnion and the upper edge of the other arm havin atrunnion-receiving slot therein, and a separate and independent flatplate 22, provided with a transverse aperture The object of theseperforafor the roller-trunnion which enters said slot, and means forpositively locking said plate to said slotted arm to prevent theroller-trunnion from being moved out of the slot, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination, With a towel-bracket having the outward-proj ectin groller-carryin g arms having the usual trunnion-receiving slot andaperture, respectively, the slotted arm being hollow and open at itsupper end, of a separate and independent plate having an aperture toreceive one roller-trunnion and adapted to be inserted down into saidhollow arm, the hollow arm and plate having registering apertures toreceive a locking device, substantially as set forth.

In a roller-towel bracket, a supplemental bracket comprising an outershell having flanges for attachment to a support and having verticalslots at the top, a removable inner portion adapted to fit within theshell and having a perforation adapted to register with the shell-slots,and a lock to fasten the two parts of the bracket together,substantially as described.

4. A roller-towel bracket comprising a wallplate, supplemental endbrackets secured to the Wallplate, one bracket comprising an outer shelland a removable inner portion, the parts of the bracket being adapted tosupport a roller and one of the brackets having its shell slotted at thetop and its removable portion perforated adjacent to the slots in theshell, and a lock to hold the two parts of the slotted bracket together,substantially as described. 5

WVILLI AM A. NEIDHARDT.

Witnesses:

J OHN KEAGAN, TERENCE P. SoANLoN.

